Intertemporal consumption, durables and liquidity constraints: a cohort analysis
Authors

Research Associate University of Oxford and Oxford Centre for Business Taxation
Michael joined the IFS in 1982 and he has been a Research Fellow since 1990 and a Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford.

Research Associate University of Padua
Guglielmo is a Research Associate at the IFS and Professor in the Department of Economics at the Faculty of Statistics, Padua University.

Rob Alessie
Working Paper details
- DOI
- 10.1920/wp.ifs.1993.9307
- Publisher
- IFS
Suggested citation
R, Alessie and M, Devereux and G, Weber. (1993). Intertemporal consumption, durables and liquidity constraints: a cohort analysis. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/intertemporal-consumption-durables-and-liquidity-constraints-cohort-analysis (accessed: 17 March 2025).
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